Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread David Ford
1) not any more 2) no 3) gentoo 4) opkg nightmares, very slow development, instability of existing core software and i have no time to work on it. using a blackberry. it just works. On 12/29/2009 03:30 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone? Do you use FR as your

Re: fso-abyss docs anywhere? (Was: GSM errors after 1024 fix)

2009-10-18 Thread David Ford
can't we build in detection for that? Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: (NB: This compact debug output form is not optimal for recognizing #1024 anyways, you should rather watch for CSQ and CREG messages. If CSQ suddenly drops to 99 and you get thrown out of the cell, then it's 100% clear you

Re: fso-abyss docs anywhere? (Was: GSM errors after 1024 fix)

2009-10-18 Thread David Ford
actually i was vague/misleading in what i wrote. what i would like to see is for the end user to be notified in a friendly fashion. like injecting a service message into opimd/sms buffer Petr Vanek wrote: It exists already. ...another way is to use frameworkd with ti_calypso_sleep_mode =

Re: [SHR] Trac password reset for user: FirefighterBlu3

2009-10-13 Thread David Ford
someone please fix the trac.shr-projects.org website. you need to patch trac: http://trac-hacks.org/ticket/3233 SHR wrote: Your Trac password has been reset. Here is your account information: Login URL: http://wiki.shr-project.org/trac/login Username: FirefighterBlu3 Password: x

Re: Reading binary messages

2009-08-06 Thread David Ford
that's an incorrect assumption. my providers only send one SMS indicating i have an MMS to read. there isn't a second SMS with a public URL. therefore i have zero chance of reading it unless i use my own software to fetch the MMS and render it by hand. Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: AFAIK

Re: Reading binary messages

2009-08-06 Thread David Ford
you can't. there is no guarantee by your provider that you can read MMS messages on any given phone. unless you bought a phone that indicates it can do MMS and you receive one, great. if you have a black and white dinosaur phone that doesn't do graphics and you get an MMS, you're just plain out

Re: Reading binary messages

2009-08-06 Thread David Ford
howdy, yup, we did. and unfortunately i had to ship my phone off for buzz fix. i just got the box in the mail today and this is one of the top items on my todo list this weekend. i've already put some code into bluesms.py in prep for copying the pdu and storing it to see a) why the two msgs,

Re: Unabel to SSH into Neo Freerunner

2009-08-06 Thread David Ford
is the interface usbX or ethX? (on both pc and freerunner) tom wrote: mhh, i dont know what to do, - latest ubuntu - android 1.5 alpha cant ping it, ip (200) seems to be there (local), though the ubuntu-network-manger cant connect to it... regardless what i specify in /etc/interface for

Re: Reading binary messages

2009-08-04 Thread David Ford
MMS notification is sent as a URL via SMS. bluesms.py has initial support for MMS however my phone has been out for buzzfix for a while. with a growing number of phones and carriers, you're only allowed to fetch that URL from the phone number it's designated for. further, it's normal to require

Re: Reading binary messages

2009-08-04 Thread David Ford
good :) my work has been stunted for a few weeks while my phone is out but it's my pet project :) -david Brock wrote: On 2009.08.04.17.15, David Ford wrote: | bluesms.py has initial support for MMS however my phone has been out for | .. bluesms.py is exactly what I was thinking

Re: [all] opkg killed by navit install

2009-07-25 Thread David Ford
known issue with opkg. add more swap memory and file handles. Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/7/25 Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com: i've been trying to install the latest navit (2398) from the navit repository, and am having the usual problems with opkg not being able to handle it. i've

Re: tangogps : updating tiles ?

2009-07-24 Thread David Ford
Perhaps a handful of tile mirrors could be set up. I can offer some space for this. -david ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [CU] voting required

2009-07-24 Thread David Ford
v1 please, i quite prefer the clean white background ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

QEMU MokoMakefile updates?

2009-07-20 Thread David Ford
regarding the wiki page at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Using_QEMU_with_MokoMakefile, section Compilation and use, does anyone have updated filenames/urls for the env file? the current svn file refers to invalid urls and filenames. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qemu also appears to be

Re: New Open Hardware company

2009-07-20 Thread David Ford
any general price range and is the usb port OTG for both client host? it looks neat and if the price is good, i'd mount one in my car for sensor gadget stuff ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Freerunner Chat Application: Suggestions wanted!

2009-07-16 Thread David Ford
because pidgin takes a lot of ram, is cpu heavy and does a lot of disk activity. that wheel is sort of acceptable on a fat desktop, but not on a cellphone :) Yogiz wrote: Rewrite Pidgin's UI to be as finger friendly as possible. That's probably all we need. Why reinvent the wheel.

Re: pidgin development version of glib and gtk requirements

2009-07-16 Thread David Ford
opkg list | grep glib opkg list | grep gtk+ Jeff Sadowski wrote: current pidgin development is talking about requiring a minimum of glib 2.12.0 and gtk 2.10.0 I'm wondering what versions of glib and gtk openmoko is on? ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: pidgin development version of glib and gtk requirements

2009-07-16 Thread David Ford
mine is in the shop for buzz fix Jeff Sadowski wrote: output please I don't have an openmoko I could try loading the os on my gumstix but I'm not sure how well it will work. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [SHR-U] Bluetooth and GSM... Again.

2009-07-15 Thread David Ford
doesn't that imply it doesn't work? having to reboot the phone to go back to handset really means to me that it doesn't work. Adam Jimerson wrote: David Ford wrote: hmm, perhaps the phone should ping the BT earpiece and see if it's available before assuming it is :D That should

Re: why openmoko is so slow? Is it a joke?

2009-07-14 Thread David Ford
i don't know where you got this information, but by far and large the OM phones have never been touted as ready for end users by OM, or by the developers working on the neo1973 or freerunner software. while i share your angst that the phone has been out for so long and software is still pretty

Re: [SHR-U] Bluetooth and GSM... Again.

2009-07-14 Thread David Ford
hmm, perhaps the phone should ping the BT earpiece and see if it's available before assuming it is :D Adam Jimerson wrote: Yes thanks to the updated wiki page I also got my bt headset working, but does the phone see when the bt headset is turned off? After turning off my bt headset and

Re: SD-card faulty?

2009-07-14 Thread David Ford
some 2G cards were created less equal than others :/ i have two 4G cards and both are entirely unusable inside the gt02. file system corruption occurs within minutes. same cards are perfectly reliable on my desktop and laptop. The Digital Pioneer wrote: I'm pretty sure all 8GB cards will be

Re: [SHR-U] Bluetooth and GSM... Again.

2009-07-13 Thread David Ford
there's plenty of end-user interest, but none of the BT headsets i've tried are functional. i'm not willing to keep buying BT toy after BT toy that doesn't work. for headsets they pair but then there's nothing but silence. buttons are useless and playing audio outside phone calls is also

Re: [shr-unstable] missing dependency for latest update

2009-07-05 Thread David Ford
just ignore it, force it, or play hop skotch. i ignored this for about a month before forcing it. Petr Vanek wrote: $ opkg upgrade * ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for frameworkd-config-shr-dev: * frameworkd-config-shr (=

Re: NABBLE [was: Re: [omgps] collect feature requests]

2009-06-30 Thread David Ford
Yes, and he and I discussed it on IRC a few minutes after all 4 postings. He clicked to submit and it didn't respond so he clicked again and tried yet again etc. While it appeared that the web interface wasn't posting to him, it actually did post which made him post it four times. In my

NABBLE [was: Re: [omgps] collect feature requests]

2009-06-29 Thread David Ford
For those of you who post using nabble -- please reconsider. Nabble posts duplicates. The below was posted by nabble four times. The headers clearly indicate nabble at fault with four different originating message IDs. Additionally, many people report problems with nabble's javascript (no,

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-26 Thread David Ford
people have different ideas about how to use their devices. regarding netiquette, opinion varies and there is no one solution which fits everyone best. not every wants to use text based clients, nor scroll to the end of a page. regardless of it being near instant or several steps, they are

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-25 Thread David Ford
mind you, while i've enjoyed the convenience of learning and writing my sms app in python/pygtk, when i'm done learning it'll definitely be redone in C. i'm also interested in seeing what vala has to offer and the contrast of it with C. -david On 06/25/09 05:15, David Fokkema wrote: But it

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-25 Thread David Ford
actually - and i'm not picking on you, it really bugs me that developers think oh, i don't need to trim this down and it's ok to suck up more resources because next year ram will be cheaper that's the reason why we have desktops that still bog down with half a dozen programs running even

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-25 Thread David Ford
have you ever tried reading an ever growing message thread on your FR? scrolling isn't easy, nor is it fast. -d On 06/25/09 08:14, Matthias Apitz wrote: I think one (you and others) should not do top posting; in addition I think that the full thread is less than zero usefull;

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-24 Thread David Ford
do you understand the weight involved with using c++? without very very careful management, c++ is rather hefty for embedded devices. granted, having 128M to work in is indeed far more tenable than smaller devices but it's still onerous. C is much more lightweight and very functional. any

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-24 Thread David Ford
that is one typical aspect. Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2009/6/24 David Ford da...@blue-labs.org mailto:da...@blue-labs.org do you understand the weight involved with using c++? without very very careful management, c++ is rather hefty for embedded devices. granted

Re: PISI 0.3 released

2009-06-23 Thread David Ford
The FSO dbus api let's you fetch the information regarding phonebooks and it'll tell you how many slots the sim card has for that phonebook. No need to manually set a limit. -david ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-22 Thread David Ford
that's all quite true. however, allow me to make just one point. this phone is marketed as a developer's phone, and all the websites related to this phone all have (or should have) discussion largely surrounding this. :) On 06/22/09 21:51, Joerg Lippmann wrote: [...] let me cite another

Re: Why one cannot recommend the freerunner as a daily phone (was Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?)

2009-06-22 Thread David Ford
except for ophonekitd being crashy currently, nearly everything else works decently for me. it's stable enough for me to be developing my SMS app for it. honestly, i only do these fixes for issues about once every two to three weeks. there are bugs that others encounter that i've never seen

Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?

2009-06-20 Thread David Ford
Here they are, please note if this email gets munged, the mdbus line ending in the .txt is one one line: r...@nibbly-bits:~# cat backup_contacts.sh #!/bin/sh d=$(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H%M) mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.RetrievePhonebook

Re: New case (was Re: Freerunner's Future)

2009-06-19 Thread David Ford
to whomever does this, please put a small stylus into a recess in the new case :) On 06/18/09 20:18, Werner Almesberger wrote: [ Let's give threads that change direction a clearer name than just Freerunner's Future ] Fabian Sch?lzel wrote: I'm not an engineer, but a draftsman, so I

Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?

2009-06-18 Thread David Ford
i beg to differ. i -reliably- use it for text messaging and brief phone calls on a daily basis. but i'm also someone that can fix most upgrade hassles on my own and if something isn't working right, i now know what to do to fix it. once in a great while Xglamo crashes, once in a while

Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?

2009-06-18 Thread David Ford
-typical dependency is python-netclient which is in (at least) the SHR unstable repository. -david jeremy jozwik wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:38 PM, David Ford da...@blue-labs.org mailto:da...@blue-labs.org wrote: excepting these, even though it is a developer phone, it works reliably

Re: Is a FreeRunner sufficient for me?

2009-06-17 Thread David Ford
that's with screen on. i can easily get a couple days out of my fone if it's entirely idle. your nokia suspends/sleeps, it's just not a user visible thing. -david Brolin Empey wrote: Do you mean 6-8 hours with the screen on or off? If off, that is very poor compared to my Nokia 6103b: I

Re: How to get started with Openmoko phone?

2009-06-15 Thread David Ford
Mikhail Umorin wrote: I tried both t-mobile and att pre-paid phones. t-mobile sold me just a SIM card ($20 in store, $7 online), att sold me with a phone ($20 cheapest, with 3G card). Both worked fine. To keep an old cell number one has to sign up for a contract. i'm fairly sure that

[shr/elementary] fonts and styles

2009-06-11 Thread David Ford
raster? what are the settings i can put in a dotfile to adjust elementary app fonts and styles? when i export my display to my desktop, shr/elementary applications have horribly huge or utterly tiny fonts and the window itself is not resizable. further, buttons are extraordinarily huge. thank

Re: usb0 vs eth0

2009-06-01 Thread David Ford
The udev operation is simple. The net interface naming is normally based on the MAC address and is stored in /etc/udev/rules.d/{something} like 70-persistent-net.rules IF your distribution runs the persistence script. Otherwise device naming is based on the order in which devices are found

Re: [any] using a dumb battery?

2009-05-20 Thread David Ford
related tangent; what microchip is used in the FR battery for those of us that want to build our own battery pack? On 05/20/09 07:35, joa...@verona.se wrote: I'm trying to solder together a dumb battery with higher capacity for the FreeRunner. It doesnt work too well, since the power

Re: [possibly any] Your storage is full

2009-05-19 Thread David Ford
The backup script(s) I posted are: r...@nibbly-bits:~# cat backup_messages.sh #!/bin/sh d=$(date +%Y.%m.%d-%H%M) mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ogsmd /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.RetrieveMessagebook 'all' messages-$d.txt r...@nibbly-bits:~# cat backup_contacts.sh

Re: [SHR-testing] save SMS messages to text file?

2009-04-26 Thread David Ford
this is what i use to dump the messages from my sim card to a text file. then i delete the messages on the sim card so i have room for new messages. a limit of 30 messages is entirely impractical. that gets filled up before noon arrives unless i constantly delete messages.

Re: SHR Testing upgrade question

2009-04-20 Thread David Ford
the upgrade changed eth0 from wireless to wired. just go edit your /etc/network/interfaces, delete the extraneous things like wlan0 if you're not using it, and make eth0 your wireless again. being that the wifi mgt tools don't work for me, all my network config is managed via this file. -d

Re: GMail, silence and other problems

2007-07-13 Thread David Ford
I am not seeing your emails duplicated. -david Christopher Heiny wrote: On Thursday 12 July 2007, ground control picked up the following transmission from Karsten Ensinger: It also seems as if only GMail customers complain about a disruption of operation. Also disrupted for

Re: gmail.com problems and this list

2007-07-12 Thread David Ford
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Marco Barreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone with admin access to the list machine send me the SMTP logs for one of the duplicated messages? I'm working in the Gmail group at Google for the summer and I can have someone try to diagnose the problem

Re: List problems, receiving multiple identical copies of each message

2007-07-12 Thread David Ford
Ulrik Rasmusen wrote: Hello, Just after I started receiving mails from the mailing list again, something weird happened. It seems like some messages are sent out 3-4 times over a period of up to 12-14 hours. They have the same timestamp and the same content, so they are completely

Re: gmail.com problems and this list

2007-07-08 Thread David Ford
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yes, I can confirm this. This is from our exim4 installation on the list server: 2007-07-07 09:17:19 1I74UH-0005cE-SD = [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176] P=esmtp S=3940 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gmail.com problems and this list

2007-07-08 Thread David Ford
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The log that I posted showed the initial retransmit happening within google's gmail servers. The log you showed is exactly want I'd expect if gmail timed out due to a slow 250 reply to the data phase of the SMTP (eg

mismangled spam [was: Re: You're in luck - special savings inside.]

2007-07-02 Thread David Ford
How did the X-Originating-IP get set to 425.57.39.1? Was this a openmoko.org error or was this inserted by the highly fuckible wprt-4db600a3.pool.einsundeins.de ([77.182.0.163])? community@lists.openmoko.org wrote: [spam snipped out] ___ OpenMoko

Re: firefox for mobiles

2007-05-11 Thread David Ford
For the same reason I use open office instead of vi. Lynx is far from capable. Even with tuning, FF is a dastard piggy. I've tested things with FF. Start it with no history, no recovered session. Load up digg.com and do nothing. Just let it sit there. It will sit there and slowly grow and

Re: firefox for mobiles

2007-05-10 Thread David Ford
If it's anything like mozilla/firefox now, we're gonna need a hefty battery, hugely more cpu, and about 1G of ram onboard. I used to love FF, now it's just a cpu/ram hog that usually gets killed by the kernel every 36-48 hours for taking about 2G of ram. The mozilla team needs to figure out how

Re: Email Push Service :) smtp+dnotify+Asterisk+... :)

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Elliot Foster wrote: David Ford wrote: It's a great idea, never thought otherwise. My comment should be taken to mean, don't reinvent the wheel, take the existing wheel, sand it down like new, and refinish it so it's all bright and shiny again. What if we want a wheel with rubber, rather

Re: Please no crossposting! Re: Information regarding the Messaging Support in OpenMoko

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Jon Phillips wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 14:05 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: [...] We don't consider MMS as something that the typical user of the Neo1973 would use anyway. We have SMS, and we have GPRS for services like ICQ, Jabber, e-mail and the like. If somebody in the community

Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Tomasz Zielinski wrote: 2007/1/31, Bryan Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the first time it pops up while I'm doing something else (Mickey calling. Answer/Ignore/Reject? while I'm putting something on my calendar), and I accidentally click one of the buttons, I'm going to be very annoyed.

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: [..] D'oh. That surprises me a bit... after all, the Neo is a phone, so I would think incoming phone calls should always popup [in default profile]. What do the others think? It shouldn't :) Do you answer all calls to your phone? My phone is often very busy

Re: Email Push Service :) smtp+dnotify+Asterisk+... :)

2007-01-30 Thread David Ford
Elliot F. wrote: Or you could simply modify the mail server to trigger a script when a message is delivered, rather than having to poll each directory/file. A procmail/maildrop filter would be one way to implement it easily (allowing you to filter for messages from specific people, to certain

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread David Ford
Tim Newsom wrote: Ok Steve. I grant you that the first derivative of acceleration is velocity... How do you propose to gain any velocity information when the acceleration measured is zero as would be the case if you are at a constant velocity? This is why I am saying you would need some

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread David Ford
He's not an idiot, he's just being bluntly vocal. I sense his frustration with not having the device and his concern that others will get to market first and stealing the 'community made' thunder and of course in financial speak, the market share. We all want toys and I'm sure OM is itching at

Re: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

2007-01-26 Thread David Ford
Steven Milburn wrote: Wow, I can't believe I got that backwards, thanks for the correction. Kind of embarrassing considering I actually work on this stuff. However, it doesn't invalidate that you don't need any more information than the accelerometer and a starting point in order to track

Re: Developers phone also fit for early adopters?

2007-01-26 Thread David Ford
I don't agree with his email tone either and neither will he speed up release of the product. His email was rude and abusive, yes. But him an idiot, no. -david David Schlesinger wrote: He's not an idiot, he's just being bluntly vocal. Sorry, David, _I'm_ bluntly vocal, that was simply

embedded system research (was: Re: request for openmoko-devel list)

2007-01-24 Thread David Ford
really off topic ... i'm looking for a full featured embedded system to install in my car and truck. i.e. run linux shell+gui onboard and have wifi + gsm network etc. any recommendations for products, or pitfalls of some products for this? thank you, david

Re: BTW could be the protocolls propritary and with the need to pay licence fees? Re: BT Vehicle Profiles

2007-01-23 Thread David Ford
Some devices don't answer as expected :) Scott ~ # hcitool scan Scanning ... 08:00:28:F3:E1:82 David Ford Scott ~ # sdptool browse 08:00:28:F3:E1:82 Browsing 08:00:28:F3:E1:82 ... Scott ~ # sdptool records 08:00:28:F3:E1:82 | grep Name Service Name: Audio Video Remote Control

Re: Idea: Desktop wakeup on user proximity

2007-01-23 Thread David Ford
Actually this idea is already in use. Set up your Bluetooth to lock/unlock your desktop when you are in the vicinity of it etc. :) Richard Franks wrote: So when I walk into my office in the morning my computer wakes the monitor and logs in, opens up a browser with slashdot, etc. So when I

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread David Ford
I believe we already saw Sean's reply to you and he said GNU would be credited in the documentation. -david p.s. the more people blabber about GNU, the more I try to remove it from my system and support non-GNU replacements. this is called the point of where proselytizing is no longer

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread David Ford
Most sales droids I know wouldn't even have a clue about either GNU or Linux :-D -david Andreas Kostyrka wrote: * Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070122 21:37]: That also wouldn't be accurate. The droid, refering to wikipedia-stable, might instead say: So, it's something _different_

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-22 Thread David Ford
If it was a windows based phone like my company phone (cingular [htc] 2125 and 8125), you'd be threatening to smash it with a baseball bat 17 times a day. Also known as the best ever possible reason why ANY other operating system is a better choice. -david Richard Bennett wrote: On

Re: exchange email?

2007-01-22 Thread David Ford
Personally I don't think we need to invent a new term for existing technology. You still call your computer a computer even though it's no longer based on an 8088 CPU. I think far too many people spend far too much time making new names and reinventing wheels rather than just making the

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
correct to refer to such as Linux (which will always be contested by the Olde Guard). Corey wrote: On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:48, David Ford wrote: OpenMoko FIC/GNU/Linus/Alan Cox/X11/Xorg/GTK/... Linux. Oh, and who is the principal for the plastic and silicon? How about the makers

Re: exchange email?

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
Microsoft push email isn't push at all. If you read the specifications, it's just another method of polling a server to determine if and what segments of new content is ready for transfer. Just like ETRN, POP3, and IMAP, none of it requires human intervention and all of it can poll for new

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
And what are the GNU free distributions to be called? If you cut yourself, do you get a bandaid or medically sterile adsorbent pad attached to an affixable length of flexible material? Band-aid may be trademarked and copyrighted, but that's still what everyone calls such items and there

Re: exchange email?

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
The term Push email comes from a client signing on to the server and issuing a look for ... instruction to the server. Also known as idling or long-delay poll. The logic of it is to have the client only issue new look for ... instructions when those instructions change, and until the client

Re: exchange email?

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
(Sydney in-dial). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ford Sent: Sunday, 21 January 2007 10:51 AM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: exchange email? Microsoft push email isn't push at all. If you read the specifications, it's

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
No more comments to the list on this. I've already covered your below response. -david Renaissance Man wrote: That might be the case if those who oppose the use of GNU actually had a rational case. The fact is they just don't; it's mostly just an emotional reaction from what I can see.

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
I don't believe that one must always forgo open source toys to earn money. In my opinion, customer service is by far the most important element of making a lot of money. Make happy customers with whatever your product is and it's viral. Your product doesn't have to be the cure that saves us

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-21 Thread David Ford
Please take this off the list :) You and I disagree about whether they are pushing their name more than pushing free software. You and I are not going to agree on this, nor will others. Free software existed before GNU, it will exist after GNU. To be honest, it was Linux that catapulted

Re: Free Your Phone

2007-01-20 Thread David Ford
That's called rhetorical questions. Those are GNU's opinions which are obviously and adamantly not shared. -I- think it's entirely silly. Xorg is as much not a component as GNU is. If gnusense is GNU/Linux based on Ubuntu, then why have they stripped Ubuntu from the name? That's entirely